Arizona · Nonprofit
SOJOURNER CENTER
SOJOURNER CENTER (Arizona) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,352,358 to it, the largest being Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc ($1,222,244). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.8M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Sojourner Center does
Mission
Overcoming the impact of domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking, one life at a time. We provide a broad spectrum of services to victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking, while working with professionals in the field on education, research and advocacy with the goal of ending domestic violence. This fiscal year, Sojourner Center responded to 2,759 hotline calls and served 919 survivors and their children through emergency shelter, transitional housing, and community outreach. Program participants received 57,562 safe nights of rest, and 49 pets stayed with their families in shelter, benefiting from our pet companion services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency shelter services: Sojourner Center's emergency shelter offers a safe and confidential, trauma-informed living environment, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for individuals and families who are fleeing domestic or sexual violence. All basic needs are provided upon arrival throughout the individuals' stay at the shelter. Case managers support participants in their progress toward healing and independence through a variety of services, including psychoeducational classes focused on trauma, domestic violence education, safety planning, and additional services such as licensed onsite childcare, lay legal advocacy, and life skills development. Additionally, participants have access to community resources, and the shelter is pet friendly. We served 473 individuals in fy25.
$3,768,583 spentof which $56,530 as grants$45,082 earned by the program70% of program spendingTransitional housing: the transitional housing program provides stable, supportive living environments for individuals and their families. The program offers participants the opportunity to gain the skills and resources necessary for obtaining and sustaining permanent housing. Participants work with their assigned case manager to develop an individualized goal plan. To achieve this, participants have access to Sojourner Center's comprehensive continuum of supportive services, focusing on the most critical needs related to self-sufficiency: financial literacy, managing a household and budgeting, education attainment, and securing stable, affordable housing. The program is also pet-friendly. We served 108 individuals in fy25.
$654,246 spentof which $8,455 as grants$40,465 earned by the program12% of program spendingCommunity outreach: our community outreach program serves survivors of domestic and sexual violence who are still living with an abusive partner, are preparing to leave an abusive household, or do not need shelter but still want support and access to community services to help them overcome the impact of the abuse, control, or coercion they have endured. Sojourner Center's outreach program connects individuals with resources in the community, including case managers and partners who assist clients in finding housing and support services. Community outreach also offers presentations to community organizations, including schools, hospitals, and law enforcement. We served 180 individuals in fy25.
$531,749 spentof which $10,695 as grants10% of program spendingChild development center: the licensed child care center addresses the short and long term effects of a child's emotional, social, and cognitive development who are primary or secondary victims of domestic violence. Cdc holds a 5 star rating from quality first; this is the highest rating possible. Enrolled children receive developmental screenings and are provided individual lesson plans to support with academic readiness. Activities are focused on learning through play, social development, and cultural-sensitivity. Parents participate in family safety planning, participation in their childs classroom, and parenting support groups.
$406,120 spentof which $828 as grants$13 earned by the program8% of program spendingLay legal: the lay legal advocacy program supports domestic violence victims attain safety and justice by assisting them in accessing the legal resources available to them. Lay legal advocates do not provide legal advice or respresentation and instead provide emotional support and court accompaniment. Lay advocates support victims with securing orders of protection, support with landlord-tenant issues (breaking a lease or avoiding eviction), legal separation or divorce, child support, custody and visitation, and modification of decrees as well as accessing other social services such as shelter, food, clothing, healthcare, and childcare. Lay legal advocates are placed in multiple courts and family advocacy centers throughout the valley. We served 170 individuals in fy25.
$0 spent0% of program spendingPet shelter: pet companion services provides animals accompanying families in our residential programs the opportunity to heal from their trauma by participating in an enrichment program designed to promote social interaction, decrease stress, and critical thinking. Cats and dogs are provided medical resources including vaccines and being spayed/neutered. Sojourner Center contracts with lost our home pet rescue to provide training for pets at our shelter to ensure each pet's individual needs are met.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,360,698.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $12M (+19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 49% · 2019 51% · 2020 60% · 2021 68% · 2022 65% · 2023 55% · 2024 49% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SOJOURNER CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lorrie Henderson
Chair/jfcs president & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $329k → $964k.
13 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SOJOURNER CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SOJOURNER CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
60% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SOJOURNER CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 20% · 2019 23% · 2020 19% · 2021 29% · 2022 20% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of SOJOURNER CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of SOJOURNER CENTER's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $807k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SOJOURNER CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOJOURNER CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $929k on record.
- Department of Justice$929k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOJOURNER CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Jewish Family and Children Service Inc · exempt
- Twenty Thirty Three Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOJOURNER CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER?
- SOJOURNER CENTER (Arizona) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,352,358 to it, the largest being Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc ($1,222,244). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOJOURNER CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $6,352,358 in grants to SOJOURNER CENTER, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOJOURNER CENTER?
- Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,222,244 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOJOURNER CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 112 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing